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Today’s Facebook (FB) IPO is the first time I can remember being completely shocked at the lack of trading excitement and volatility for a much-hyped IPO. Ironically, the reason for such unexciting, rational behavior is because of how hyped the Facebook IPO was to begin with. The share allocation to retail investors at the $38 offer price was huge.

The social network filed to go public earlier this week and is hoping to raise $5 billion in a huge IPO. The markets are buzzing, but what might it mean for an individual investor? Melissa Block gets the story on how high profile IPOs work from Dennis Berman, Marketplace editor at The Wall Street Journal.

By Utkarsh Agrawal Move over smart phones and cars, smart beta is trending. You have probably heard the buzzword all over the global landscape and as it slowly trickles into the Indian investor's lingo, you may be wondering what exactly makes this beta "smart". Well, before we dive into the details of "Smart Beta", let's do a quick recap of Beta. In capital asset pricing model, Beta is the sensitivity of an asset to the movement in the market where the beta of the market is one.

By Jim Van Meerten: Facebook (FB) has gotten a lot of press and hype recently, but is it an investable stock? When I ask is it investable I don't mean can I recommend it as an investment, but is there enough information for me to make an intelligent decision on the stock's value. Up until now all we had were news stories and the hype press releases by the Underwriting group who we all know has a mission to sell an IPO for whatever the market will bear.

By David Zanoni:What's the deal with Facebook's (FB) IPO? It looks like too much hype for just a 23 cent gain over the offering price. The reality is that the company has been priced at an overvalued level.

Michael Kovac / Getty ImagesSnapchat's parent company Snap Inc. set in motion what could be the biggest tech flotation in years by revealing that it generates over $400 million in annual sales and has 158 million people using its namesake app on a daily basis.
The Los Angeles-based company released the financial details in filing for an initial public offering on Thursday.

Beck Diefenbach/ReutersFacebook's ad business is growing like gangbusters, with marketers forking over big dollars to reach the social network's vast audience of North American users.
During the fourth quarter, Facebook said that its average revenue per user in the US and Canada swelled to $19.81, up from $13.70 in the final three months of 2015.